Sentences with phrase «overall flatness»

Realism is not the goal in her work; the perspective can be askew and there's an overall flatness to her drawings.

You can see an actual Frankenthaler at the end of the next large gallery, the later 1967 «Capri» with its staining effects and overall flatness, deliberately eschewing the layering of Pollock and company.

However, as we listened to Earth, Wind & Fire's «Let's Groove» and Waka Flaka's «No Hands,» we noticed a consistent overall flatness to the sound.

Considering that U.S. high school graduation rates are also up significantly over this period — and thus a greater portion of students are reaching the twelfth grade — these are mildly encouraging trends, despite the overall flatness of the lines.

Not exact matches

That's not to say it looks brilliant; there's a noticeable flatness and lack of detail that doesn't manage to really sell the idea of clinging mud and water that made the trenches so miserable, but overall it's nice to look at.

While each adjustment is undertaken to orchestrate and tighten the relation of each pictorial unit to every other pictorial unit, to secure formally the integrity of each painting as a whole, the overall effect of the process is also to enliven the space, to acknowledge its flatness while simultaneously allowing it visually to twist and warp and bend, to project and recede, to be positive and negative — and thus to explore and personalize what's become natural to pictorial space since Cezanne and Cubism radicalized it more than a century ago.

The two - minute version, he says, would be that Greenberg favored «purity, formalism, flatness, overall design, and surface incident» in painting while Rosenberg argued for «the action of the artist on the canvas and the notion of the creative act being the most important aspect of art making, rather than the product.»

The grayness of the installation reinforces the overall bleakness of the collapsing environment, but the flatness of tone signals that this is an entirely invented space.

This tense flatness must not destroy the overall flat tension, which, to my mind, in two - dimensional painting is the most important thing.»

By refusing to adopt the «old values» of traditional art and asserting the flatness and objectivity of the canvas he was not rejecting completely the energetic brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism, as is often suggested, but insisting on the development of the overall surface without relying on the illusionism that comes from the visual brushstrokes or the sense of depth that the inclusion of color might imply.